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▲ yfontana 3 hours ago

Yeah, I personally draw a distinction between data viz and BI. AI has definitely changed the former, it's pretty cool to be able to design visuals with claude design: you're not bound by what libs can do, html + svg lets you visualize data exactly how you want (and you can even get fancy with 3d stuff, with the pitfall of just showing eye candy with no real insights). I've built some fun stuff like that myself (also with duckdb-wasm).

But BI is more than just visualization: you need stuff like solid data models and semantic layers, tools that help enforce data governance (so that the same metric doesn't get re-defined in 12 different places, possibly with slight variations each time), proper access control (with RLS/CLS). Sure you can probably vibe-code your own BI tool, but it's gonna take quite a bit more work than just the viz part.